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Summary: Requirements and Tools for Variability Management
Marco Aiello, Pavel Bulanov, Heerko Groefsema
Distributed Systems Group
University of Groningen
The Netherlands
Email: aiellom@ieee.org, p.bulanov@rug.nl, h.groefsema@rug.nl
Abstract--Explicit and software-supported Business Process
Management has become the core infrastructure of any medium
and large organization that has a need to be efficient and
effective. The number of processes of a single organization can
be very high, furthermore, they might be very similar, be in
need of momentary change, or evolve frequently. If the ad-
hoc adaptation and customization of processes is currently the
dominant way, clearly it is not the best. In fact, providing tools for
supporting the explicit management of variation in processes (due
to customization or evolution needs) has a profound impact on
the overall life-cycle of processes in organizations. Additionally,
with the increasing adoption of Service-Oriented Architectures,
the infrastructure to support automatic reconfiguration and
adaptation of business process is solid.
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